About Sharon
Sharon M Swigart is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and parenting concerns. Sharon takes a calm, steady approach and aims to make the first steps into therapy easier for worried people.
She has long experience working with adults and teenagers who have experienced complex trauma and ongoing stress. Sharon uses practical strategies to reduce symptoms like panic attacks and persistent worry.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship patterns that affect mood and family life. In sessions she creates a respectful space for people to talk through their thoughts and feelings. Clients set the pace and Sharon offers grounding techniques when things feel overwhelming.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Sharon draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. She focuses on skills you can practice between sessions, such as breathing and thought skills, and ways to notice patterns that keep problems going.
This makes the therapy feel applicable to everyday life. People often come to her for help with anxiety, parenting stress, family conflict, depression, and trauma or abuse. Sharon also supports those dealing with attachment issues, grief around separation, body image concerns, and problems linked to aging or military experience.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Sharon uses well-established, practical approaches that translate well to online settings. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying clearer, more helpful ways of thinking and behaving. This approach is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood challenges because it breaks problems into steps you can practice between sessions. Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person’s inner experience and helps them relate to those parts with care. This can be helpful for people who carry shame, have trouble with strong emotions, or are healing from trauma.Choosing the right approach is part of the journey and Sharon treats it as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try out methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable for daily life.
Online therapy with Sharon is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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